Please don't tell me to get off of it, I have old Livejournal friends to keep in touch with and that's why I'm there.
That's why I tell people to loosen up when they complain that the format is being misused. If it works, it works. It is evolution. I don't like the look of snails any less than the rest of the general population do, but snails evolved the way they did because it works.